EPA launched the Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center on Jan. 16 to help communities across the country improve their wastewater, drinking water and stormwater systems through innovative financing and building resilience to climate change.
An online map produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and Esri aims to provide officials and communities across the world with easy access to invaluable information to help inform decisions about climate change adaptation. Using satellite technology, the map features shots of the entire globe at 250 meters resolution, Esri’s Chief Scientist Dawn Wright says that because of climate change "people can see things changing in their communities.
States and communities around the U.S. are increasingly adopting adaptation plans to address the impacts from climate change. An interactive map from Georgetown University’s Climate Center highlights the status of these state and local adaptation efforts. Georgetown University Climate Center.
The State, Local, and Tribal Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience has released a document of recommendations for how the Federal government can help prepare the U.S. for climate change. The formation of the Task Force was decreed in Executive Order 13653, Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change,which was released on November 1, 2013.
On October 31, 2014, EPA released the final version of its Agency-wide Climate Change Adaptation Plan and the seventeen Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans. These Plans were developed in response to directives in President Obama's Executive Order 13653 - Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change.
The U.S. EPA recently released an updated version of the National Stormwater Calculator and Climate Assessment Tool package that includes future climate vulnerability scenarios. The calculator, a part of President Obama’s Climate Change Action Plan, is a desktop application that estimates the annual amount of stormwater runoff from a specific location. U.S.
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts earlier this week unveiled a $50 million plan to help prepare Massachusetts for the challenges climate change poses to energy supplies, public health, transportation, and basic infrastructure in his state. A $40 million grant from the state’s Department of Energy Resources will help cities and towns develop protections around energy services, and $10 million will go toward shoring up critical coastal infrastructure and dam repair.
In early November 2013, U.S. EPA released draft Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans for the Office of Water, other national programs, all 10 regional offices, and other offices to provide program-level detail on how offices will address EPA’s agency-wide draft Climate Change Adaptation Plan, which was released in February 2013.
In July 2013, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) released a report that notes recent increases in costly extreme weather events have provided a clear signal to many companies of the near-term risks associated with climate change. These experiences call into question current assumptions about weather risk and preparedness, and call for much stronger responses by businesses—and governments. The report explores effective methods used by leading companies to build greater resilience into their operations, supply chains, preparedness policies, and risk management plans.
This report, released by NACWA and AMWA, is an early cost assessment of adaptations to address some of the likely impacts of climate change on our nation's drinking water and wastewater utilities through 2050.
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